Thursday, February 26, 2015

Sara A. Myers, Assistant Professor, School of HPER; Director
of the Gait Analysis Laboratory, Biomechanics Research Building , University of
Nebraska at Omaha

Biomechanics technologies that are used to develop and
are featured in movies and video games also have applications in clinical
and rehabilitation settings. An explanation of motion capture, assistive
devices, and other biomechanics tools
will be given, including examples of applications in pop culture and
medical settings.

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Suping Lu, professor, University Libraries and liaison
librarian for Economics, Political Science and Law, was awarded the Special
Contribution Award Medallion by the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum in China
for his research and publications. The award is given to those scholars who
have made outstanding contributions to the research on the topic. Lu is only
one of 23 people who have been given this award in the last 20 years.The organization recognized Lu for “advocating
awareness of the Nanjing Massacre in the English speaking world.”

The ceremony took place on December 9, 2014, in China at the
Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders in
Nanjing, capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province. Lu was not able to
attend the award ceremony in person, but received the award in February by
special delivery.

Lu has authored and edited 9 books on the Nanjing Massacre
in both English and Chinese.His
research focuses on the American and British eyewitness accounts on the
massacre and brings a Nebraska connection to it. The top American diplomat in
Nanjing at the time, John M. Allison, grew up in Lincoln, NE and was a 1927
graduate of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Allison cabled a large number
of dispatches, between January-August 1938, to the U.S. State Department. In
2010, Lu published a collection of the dispatches, along with documents by
other American diplomats, in the book, A
Mission under Duress. The Japanese occupation of Nanjing started on
December 13, 1937.

Monday, February 23, 2015

You might have noticed that a few things have been moving
out of media services.The DVDs have
moved to the reference area in the Link, and the anatomical body parts and
study room keys can be checked out at the ASKus service area on the first
floor.

So what does Media Services have left you might ask? The
answer is a lot of technology.

After freeing up space from the DVD move, Media Services (Room
221) made more space for their 3D Scanner, PS3, PS4, Xbox, editing station and
sound station.All of these services are
yours to use if you stop in.Media
Services also has plenty of scanners, computers and there is even an ITS worker
ready to help with any technological problems during the day.On top of all that, you can still check out
digital equipment like cameras.

If you don’t feel like working on homework and want to take
a break, there is always the collection of electronic and board games to keep
you occupied.

Media services will continue to grow in the future and the
library will keep you updated on any changes to come.

Can’t find the
information you need on the Internet?Did Google give you too many hits?Come and learn how to use the Internet to find resources from open
access journals and databases, Google books and Google scholar, and other free
scholarly sources that you can use in your paper.

February
24th 3:10-4:00pm

Love Library - Room 111 (ESC Room)

Save Time and Organize! - Citation Management
Quick Tips.

Need help keeping track of your readings, articles and your
citations?Come and learn about some free
and subscription citation management tools that can help you organize and
manage your PDF’s and your citations, give you access to your documents 24/7,
and format your bibliography and in-text citations for all your papers.

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Hollywood
sensationalizes action movies with big explosions and lots of fire. Running
through a burning building with a victim over the shoulder is a great way for
heroes to protect their shoulder from burns. It’s also a great way to
bake their victim faster than a microwave. We will take a walk through
fire both real and Hollywood.

Thursday, February 12, 2015

The ‘Quick
Tips’ Research Series Workshops are available to all University of Nebraska-Lincoln
undergraduate students. Covering a selection of research topics, students will find
out how to save time by using the library resources and the Internet more
efficiently. All workshops are free and on a first-come, first-served basis.

Reading Those
Long Articles.

Want to know how
to read those long scholarly articles for your assignments?Come and get some tips on how to read a
scholarly article in the sciences, humanities and social sciences.

February
17th4:10-5:00pm

Love Library - Room 111 (ESC Room)

Find it Fast and
Finish the Paper on Time: Just received your first research paper
assignment and don’t know where to start? Need more information and don’t know
where to find it? Come and find out how to devise a research strategy that will
get you on track to completing that research paper.